Local News

The Kolomoki Society will hold its 4th annual fossil and artifact show Saturday at the Tommy Usher Pineland Center, in Chiefland, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A Chiefland woman is dead as the result of an accident on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on Northwest 55th Avenue, two miles north of County Road 330, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release. 

Jo-Ann Braswell Bailey, 66, died at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

She was driving a 2003 Pontiac mini-van southbound on Northwest 55th Avenue as William A. Graden, 28, of Chiefland was attempting to back a 1997 Freightliner semi and flatbed from the northbound lane into a driveway. 

 A prescribed burn is being conducted in Levy County located at SR-121 and US 19. The Florida Highway Patrol is monitoring road conditions in the area of SR-121, US-19 and CR-337. Conditions may require motorists to take alternate routes. The potential of smoke/fog type conditions may increase during the evening and early morning hours. Motorists traveling in areas with reduced visibility are advised to use caution by reducing their speed and use headlights on low beam. Possibility of low visibility conditions are expected to continue through the weekend.

 Chris Nickolas knows the importance of planning and setting goals. But he also knows that to make it through adversity one has to take things day to day, moment by moment, step by step.